Power and politics first for biden and the democrats all the time theres a piece written a few years ago the Dallas Morning News by a member of the Hudson Institute i believe. 2021. Leading up to the 1986 Summit PresidentRonald Reagan faced a strong pressure for many democrats in congress to put a strategic Defense Initiative on the Bargaining Table with the soviets. They wanted him to bargain it away because they did not have anything close to the technical capabilities to build a strategic defense. This is one of the reasons we won the cold War Raggett insisted on and he knew it would bankrupt them. Among the most vocal critics of the doctrine and a strong voice for putting it on the Bargaining Table was then Senator Joe Biden who said the president s continued adherence to sti, such as one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft